Comment by rtpg

Sorry, I didn't mean to minimize the consequences.

There are massive failures, and now, more than ever, software interacts with other software in unpredictable ways.

I was just expressing the feeling that things are even worse in other domains. Though sometimes automating a huge unstructured mess is difficult, imagine having a huge unstructured mess and dealing with it by hand!

Programmers might have many problems, but at least a subset of the work happens in a purely mathematical space.